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Heavy Breakfast

A heavy breakfast featuring bananas, hominy, buckwheat cakes, and coffee.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Heavy Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the bananas and hominy.

  2. In a bowl, mix the cream and powdered sugar. Add the maple sugar and stir until combined.

Make the drinks

  1. Brew the coffee and add hot milk.

Cook and serve

  1. Toast the potato bread and spread with butter or nut margarine.

  2. Prepare the buckwheat cakes according to package instructions.

  3. Serve with maple syrup and enjoy.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Coffee + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Banana + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Buckwheat cakes
Provide the main starchy base, with a soft, spongy texture when cooked.
Maple syrup
Adds sweetness and a rich flavour that soaks into the cakes.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour, and melts into the toast for richness.
Cream
Adds richness and body to the sweetened topping.

Swap the buckwheat

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, cream, sugar, coffee, milk, potato bread, butter):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Buckwheatthe original
  4. Capersfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, cream, sugar, coffee, milk, potato bread, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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